Financing Increased and First Tranche Closed

May 26, 2016

Zecotek Increases Non-Brokered Private Placement to $925,000 and Closes First Tranche of $678,000

Singapore, May 26, 2016 – Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX-V: ZMS; Frankfurt: W1I) (the “Company”), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the Company has increased the non-brokered private placement announced on May 19, 2016 to $925,000. The Company also announced it has closed on the first tranche of the private placement by selling 2,259,997 units of the Company at a price of $0.30 per unit for gross proceeds of $678,000.

Each unit consists of one common share and one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles the holder to acquire one common share at an exercise price of $0.43 per common share until May 26, 2018.

The Company paid finder’s fees on the first tranche consisting of cash fees totalling $47,459.94 and issued 158,200 finder’s warrants. Each finder’s warrant entitles the holder to acquire one common share at an exercise price of $0.43 per common share until May 26, 2018.

All securities issued in the first tranche are subject to a four-month hold period expiring on September 27, 2016.

Net proceeds from the funds raised will be used to complete the transfer of technology for the purpose of immediate commercialization, to strengthen and maintain patents of the Company’s IP portfolio, for purchase order financings and general working capital purposes.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are based on management’s expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future results and trends may differ materially from what may have been stated.

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